This paper considers the joint creation and consumption of content on user generated content platforms (e.g., reviews or articles, chat, videos, etc.). On these platforms, users' utilities depend upon the participation of others; hence, users' expectations regarding the participation of others...

This study applies an estimator based on inequality restrictions to multivariate discrete choice models and identifies the conditions under which the inequality estimator performs well in small samples and for complex problems.

This paper considers the joint creation and consumption of content on user generated content platforms (e.g., reviews or articles, chat, videos, etc.). On these platforms, users' utilities depend upon the participation of others; hence, users' expectations regarding the participation of others...

This paper estimates a dynamic model of user behavior in a social network site using unique data on the daily login activity of a sample of members of MySpace.com. We view a social network as a stock of capital that yields a flow of utilities over time by creating interactions between the site...